Tv Show - Ptsd - Crawling With Disgust

[joeylittle]

Using anyone's mental illness as reality TV fodder is, IMO, just gross. Disgusting. I have more words, but I won't use them.

These shows don't bring awareness; they just bring a TV crew for a short window, maybe one follow-up at best, and then leave things worse off behind them. There is nothing about them that has anything to do with helping people - it's very much about the ratings. And generally, when they purport to help people, it's not too hard to discover that they actually don't.

 

[EmmaOwl]

I NEVER watch TV.

I'm not going to suggest starting up a TV habit! - but to others: My quality of life noticeably improved when I quit watching cable and turned to streaming video. I do like movies playing in the background as a distraction, & occasionally a sitcom or something.

There are always horrid things playing on cable, and IME, it's almost impossible to avoid them, and then the deer-in-headlights thing can kick in. There are a lot of commercials that disturb me, too, that pop up without warning. With streaming, I only see what I actively seek out.

 

[Gs172003]

I'm not going to suggest starting up a TV habit! - but to others: My quality of life noticeably improv...

I love Netflix and Amazon. I can pick what I want. Except food network. I watch that at the gym

 

[Gs172003]

I believe it's all about the ratings. That's pretty much how they gauge if a show is to be shitlisted o...

For Gods sake they had a fake Amish mafia show and claimed it was real :)

 

[anonymous]

Using anyone's mental illness as reality TV fodder is, IMO, just gross. Disgusting.

I should see the way the tv demonised brnefit claimants in the uk.. At the bottom of this junk tv lies the classic "divide and rule" tactic. Don't fall for it (not that anyone here would)